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Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Re: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #37

I'm frequently reminded how thankful I am to live in a country with a strong, positive international reputation. Even ignoring actual quality-of-life stuff associated with where I live - simply not being from a country with a "dodgy" reputation makes many things so much easier. I don't have to think about blocked websites. Companies accept my payments. Couriers ship to me. With my passport, I walk straight to the fro…

I live in a small EU country.

There are many, many american sites that just block the whole EU IP ranges becaus they don't want to deal with GDPR.

Re: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #8
38 wrote: post #3

I mean, so? Why should it matter where they are located?

My servers ban huge swaths of IPs from certain places that originates enormous amounts of spam, scanners, and other nefarious traffic. It's very effective

So, all the cloud, vps, and hosting providers?

Re: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Post by appendix-rock »

TheTr1ckt3r wrote: post #33

This whole issue of blocking Iranian IPs and not allowing them to download Docker containers for ‘legal’ reasons is ridiculous. Additionally, trying to detect and ban VPNs used by Iranians, which will affect the next user of that IP, is equally absurd

What do you suggest, then? What’s your legal opinion?

Re: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Post by rtsil »

Onavo wrote: post #39
RadiozRadioz wrote: post #37

I'm frequently reminded how thankful I am to live in a country with a strong, positive international reputation. Even ignoring actual quality-of-life stuff associated with where I live - simply not being from a country with a "dodgy" reputation makes many things so much easier. I don't have to think about blocked websites. Companies accept my payments. Couriers ship to me. With my passport, I walk straight to the fro…

It's more that you are on the right side in a unipolar world. When the world shifts to multipolarity in the next few years, the problem will solve itself.

I doubt the "next few years", and if the world shifts to multipolar, it won't solve the problem, it will just move everyone to the "bad side" where frictions big and small abound.

Re: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Post by ttt3ts »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #51
RadiozRadioz wrote: post #37

I'm frequently reminded how thankful I am to live in a country with a strong, positive international reputation. Even ignoring actual quality-of-life stuff associated with where I live - simply not being from a country with a "dodgy" reputation makes many things so much easier. I don't have to think about blocked websites. Companies accept my payments. Couriers ship to me. With my passport, I walk straight to the fro…

I live in a small EU country. There are many, many american sites that just block the whole EU IP ranges becaus they don't want to deal with GDPR.

I have done that exact configuration for several of my clients who didn't realize any/much revenue in the EU. For them it was the obvious best move but I wish there was a better option.

Re: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Post by rany_ »

lutoma wrote: post #42
tgma wrote: post #7

My theory is lots of people who want to circumvent Iranian internet censorship rely on tunnels/VPNs hosted on Hetzner, which correlates those IPs with `Accept-Language: fa` and GPS locations collected from Android or other similar behavior.

I think a more likely explanation is that Hetzner just acquired some IPv4 address ranges that were previously used in Iran

I think that might be less likely given the trade restrictions. There's no way an Iranian ISP just gave Hetzner those IPv4 addresses free of charge.

Re: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Post by rany_ »

tgma wrote: post #7

My theory is lots of people who want to circumvent Iranian internet censorship rely on tunnels/VPNs hosted on Hetzner, which correlates those IPs with `Accept-Language: fa` and GPS locations collected from Android or other similar behavior.

That's almost certainly the case. I use Tor semi-regularly and many Tor exit relay IPs are identified as being in Iran which is just not possible.

Re: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Post by QuercusMax »

buran77 wrote: post #46
kiba wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multipolarity is a more dangerous world, as we have seen Russia asserts itself at the expense of Ukraine.

Unless you happen to not be aligned with or really on the wrong side of that fabled ideal power monopole. It can quickly knock you from ignorance to reality. Imagine Russia was that monopole of power. Or look no further than a dictatorship. Great if your interests align or you're willing to bend them until they do, hell if they don't. The US is the closest thing we have to a monopole these days and I'm sure it's swee…

"According to a 2024 analysis by The Washington Post, 60% of low-income countries were under some form of U.S. financial sanction. The analysis also concluded that the U.S. imposes three times as many sanctions as any other country or international body." - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions

Really quite ridiculous that there are sanctions on something like 1/3 of the world.

Re: Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran

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Post by ewpratten »

Hey OP. On behalf of Cloudflare, we take information accuracy very seriously.

I raised the linked issue internally with the team, and they have reason to suspect this has already been addressed.

That being said, if you (or anyone else here) are still seeing this issue occur, please raise a ticket with our support team (https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/contacting-cloudfl...) so we can investigate further.

Thanks :)

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